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few. >> don't drink and drive. you might spill it. >> reporter: this guy sure doesn't inspire -- ♪ joy to the world >> reporter: he conjures up and who would you like to save the ice caps? this man or this one? jeanne moos. "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. it is not just cold and miserable out there. it is downright dangerous. and if that's not bad enough already, another wave of snow and ice is right behind this one. find out how much worse it could get. also ahead, a possible national championship. the heisman trophy, and a young man's freedom all on the line. we're about to find out if florida state's star quarterback
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will be cleared or charged with rape. and, remember, he denied smoking crack before he admitted to smoking crack. now toronto's mayor denies offering a drug dealer thousands of dollars to keep that infamous crack-smoking videotape a secret. hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. it's thursday, december 5th. welcome to "legal view." i want to start with news that's just developing now. i want to begin with news of an american teacher shot dead in liba. it happened in benghazi, a troubled city forever linked to the deadly attack on the u.s. compound in 2012. this follows a chilling new web posting from the american-bournemouthpiece for al qaeda, senior national correspondent nic robertson is following all the developments. can you get us up to speed be on the shooting, nic? >> reporter: the young teacher
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was exercising, his regular routine morning exercises, we're told, when he was killed. this comes hard on the heels just a couple of days after adam godan, the american al qaeda spokesman released his 17-minute internet posting in arabic, calling on libyans and other muslims, specifically libyans, to rise up in vengeance against the united states and americans in libya because of what he said was the wrongful arrest about two months ago of abu al nasan libya. godan calling for an attack on american interests. there isn't a claim of responsibility yet. we don't know if it's al qaeda. shocking similarities with what happened with chris stevens, remembering back to that last
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year. a couple of days before chris stevens killed, the head of al qaeda at that time calling for an attack on american interests inside libya for the killing by drone of al qaeda's number two at that time, a libyan. so there are very big similarities here. al qaeda's spokesman calling for attacks on americans in libya and within days, actions. we don't know if this is linked yet to the death of this young teacher but those similarities raise a lot of concern right now. >> i want to be really clear, because this is so early in this story. the minute you mention the word benghazi, go up. is it a random crime against an american or is it looking more and more that this is a targeted crime and that american was set for that kind of a crime? >> it could be a random crime. absolutely, benghazi is the type of place where a random crime could happen. what concerns me, the details that i just talked about, about
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the threat and the linkages we've seen to previous threats. the other thing that concerns me is when people have described here this young man going through his regular morning exercises, he had a routine. this is what is the implication of what people are saying. we know that terrorists studied the routines of people's behavior before attacks. so it's sounding less like random, he was out on the streets and somebody went past him and just decided to kill him. and certainly there are westerners who visit benghazi. we know it's a dangerous place. but those -- these will be the issues that raise my concerns right now. you rightfully do ask that question. could it be random? we're still waiting for more information to become clear. >> nic robertson on the story for us, live. thank you for that. you may have to cross a picket line if you are going through a fast food drive-thru.
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we could see the biggest protests yet on had an they consider nonliving wages. it's about $9 an hour, above the federal minimum. it's well below the federal poverty line for a family of four. alison kosik is spending the morning outside a wendy's in brooklyn. big question for you. there are those who say that's crazy they make so little money and there are other whose say that's crazy we're suggesting this as an all-out strike, people coming in that aren't the workers pushing the strike, more like labor organizers. war you seeing out on the street? >> reporter: physically out on the street protests have yet to begin, at least here in brooklyn at wendy's. closer in toward new york city, other protests have been going on all morning. you're talking about that $9 minimum wage -- $9 that the average minimum wage worker earns. whether or not that's fair, you
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know, there are so many sides to this issue. the critics certainly are very outspoken. a lot of the critics are the businesses, the restaurants coming out and saying that you see this federal minimum wage get as high as $15 an hour, they say it could be bad for business. what it would wind up doing is food costs would go up. they would have to go ahead and pass those costs on to consumers. they also say it would be a job killer because these businesses would be forced to get rid of their employees and automate those positions and we're already seeing a lot of that happening. i don't know if you've seen this. many airports have it where you go and order on a tablet. you don't even have any human interaction and then your food comes up. that could be the wave of the future if minimum wage does, in fact, go up. ashleigh? >> they're not just asking for money, as i understand it, right? >> reporter: right. they do want to have the right to form a union without having
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any reperfecussions with that. they want a wage that they have a chance of living on. $15 an hour. what they're making right now, many say, they just can't pay their bills and have to have one job or two jobs or three jobs just to make ends meet. you see this movement really gathering steam lately. many people are wondering why all of a sudden is this becoming such a headline issue? it's because of the recession. that had a lot to do with it. 8 million jobs were lost during the recession. a lot of those jobs haven't come back. you think of these minimum wage jobs, many think they were put in place for teenagers, young 20-year-olds. now you're seeing 25 and up having to take these minimum wage positions. >> a family of four trying to survive on that. i can see sides both weighing in on this. alison kosik, thank you for that. other news to bring to your attention as well. this got us really nervous yesterday. police in mexico have now found
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that stolen truck that contained radioactive crow bauobalt-60. the stuff that can make the dirty bomb. not only the dirty bomb but the potential of that sale of material to others who are not friends of america. two thieves are still on the loose. they reportedrily opened the packaging and they, themselves, could very well be sick. also making headlines in a few hours, florida prosecutors are set to announce whether or not the star fsu quarterback jamison winston will face rape charges. fellow student says the heisman trophy favorite raped her at an off-campus party last december. we'll bring you that conference right here on cnn. toronto's crack-smoking mayor. you thought he was out of the news? beg to differ. he cannot get out of hot water. new court documents suggest he might have tried to buy back
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like a milk-bone biscuit. ♪ say it with milk-bone. it is canada time. according to newly released court documents, gang members have said that rob ford reportedly tried to buy the crack-smoking video several months before it became public. a gang member is alleging in a
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phone conversation -- the cops are listening in. that ford offered $5,000 and a car in exchange for that dangerously damaging videotape. he allegedly scoffed at that bid, and instead would be asking somewhere in the $150,000 range for that very valuable videotape. for his part, mayor ford angrily responded to these allegations, that somebody didn't realize they were making. they were just being overheard. he appears on a sports talk radio station. listen to what he said. >> number one, that's an outright lie. number two, can you talk to my lawyers about it. i'm here to talk football, guys. if you want to talk football, talk football. if you want to talk other things, i'm going to have to let you go. >> here gu.
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magic, huh? jean casarez. if we're talking about the potential for blackmail, drug gangs being able to blackmail a mayor or at least keep him at bay and keep officers of the city at bay, this could be massive. >> you're exactly right. and the way this came about, it's so ironic, because the toronto police were trying to get to this drug gang, alleged gang of drugs. 59 phones were tapped. they went to a judge, got the wiretaps. as the conversations are going on, they suddenly hear the name of toronto's mayor. we don't think at this point, from the transcripts, that they knew ahead of time, the police, that the mayor was involved. but it was that allegation of the video and this would have been in march that he knew about this alleged crack video, that he offered to get some money to get the video, $5,000 and a car.
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>> so let's be real clear. the mayor was never the target. he was not being wiretapped. the mayor was not the target, people. and the things that were said about the mayor, those people knew nothing about who was listening in. and what they said, so much pictures of rob ford doing the hezza. i did not know until today that that is heroin. and dixon's blood members talking about ford's smoking their rocks again, a term for crack. they were talking so liberally about the material they had. are these claims that were being made without the people knowing they're making them? basically they're just talking amongst themselves. in terms of the credibility of what's being said? >> sure. this is what we call wiretapping. it's very similar in canada as it is here in the united states. these agents were listening in on these candid conversations and what i'm reading is true -- and jean echoed this.
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this means that these guys, the feds, were essentially doing a valid wiretap and all of a sudden, can you imagine the moment in the white panel van parked outside, the moment when they realize, hey, is that the mayor? >> are they talking about the rb ford? >> are they talking about rob ford? >> no. >> can you imagine the hustle and bustle, the chaos that ensued when they realized that they had potentially the mayor on the hook? if that's just true, they stumbled upon his crack purchases, there's a problem. however, i will say that for a conspiracy to exist, you need more than the minimum number. in other words, the purchaser and buyer of crack does not a conspiracy make. saying he's a co-conspirator with these guys is not appropriate at this time. >> and we should be very clear, jean, this is where your legal expertise -- jean is a lawyer, so she knows what she's talking about -- comes into play. this did not lead to any charges for the mayor today. we don't know what's coming down the pike. if there is any criminal action taken against the mayor, this
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stuff could very well be evidence that jurors hear in a courtroom and could very much weigh toward what they feel about his guilt or innocence? >> it could be exhibit a for prosecutors. we were talking about this before the segment. now, you need corroboration as far as any alleged crimes. we were talking about tampering with evidence, tampering with witnesses and danny brought up such a great point. the mayor didn't know there was an investigation that was going on. so, can you even be charged with that? i think, ashleigh, people are saying why haven't the mayor been charged with something? we now have insight that they knew much more than we did up until today when these transcripts were released and that investigation may be ongoing. >> other than the big headline of him offering money and a car to get the tape, we have loads of photos on this guy that they clearly -- these are somalis, that they clearly articulated, this drug gang, were valuable and could be an insurance policy to protect them in their
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criminal behavior. it is so distressing to see those things. i think you're going to be back, talking about this one again. >> to be continued. >> something tells me. to be continued is the perfect tag line on this one. thank you. if you live anywhere from central california to southern ohio, you probably have a big weather problem today. and the bad part is, it's probably not the worst. the worst is still to come. these scenes from northern minnesota are rationemarkable. when it comes to winter storms half an inch of ice can do a lot more damage than a big foot of snow. scenes like these from 2007 very much in the forecast today, all the way from dallas to little rock to memphis. i haven't even mentioned the brutal cold yet. jennifer gray is going to do that. she's holding down the fort. awesome years, jennifer. when there was an ice prediction, everybody went on red alert. >> it's so true.
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dallas, i'm from shreveport. you get ice in the south and the entire city shuts down. that's what we're looking at over the next 24 to 36 hours. ice, freezing rain anywhere from st. louis all the way down through the south, fayetteville, arkansas. dallas, you haven't seen it yet. by the time the sun goes down this afternoon, that's when we'll start to see the ice accumulate in dallas. we could see anywhere from half an inch all the way up to maybe three-quarters of an inch of ice there. as we go down to the south, we will continue to see the ice and snow anywhere from albuquerque all the way through portions of west texas, el paso seeing the rain right now. as we go through the next 24 to 36 hours, the ice forecast anywhere from dallas through little rock, paducah, half an inch of ice. this could do a lot of damage. we're talking about downed trees, power outages possible. all of the above as we go through late on friday.
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>> jennifer, keep an eye for us, if you will. thank you for that. he is the quarterback of the number one college football team in the nation. and he's also being considered for the heisman trophy. jamison winston is being investigated for rape right now and his life could take a huge turn in a matter of hours. details are coming up next. [ female announcer ] ladies and gentlemen i'm here to say a few words about the power of baking stuff with nestle toll house morsels. you can heal a broken heart with a bundt cake. make a monday mornin' feel like a friday afternoon with some nestle toll house morsels. let's close our laptops and open our ovens. these things don't bake themselves. we have to bake them for one another. we can bake the world a better place one toll house cookie at a time. nestle. good food, good life. waiting for your wrinkle cream to work? neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair
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florida state university star quarterback jameis winston will learn if he will face charges for allegedly raping a
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fellow student last december. he is the heisman trophy favorite and led the seminoles to a high ranking this season. prosecutor handling the case is making an announcement in about a couple of hours from now, 2:00 pm eastern time. we'll bring that to you live. meantime, joining me live is cnn's martin savidge and cnn legal analyst paul callan. let me begin with you, marty, if i can. maybe a little bit of background will help to tell us why we are in a case that is a year old and here we are just about to find out if there are charges against this young man. why the delay? >> yeah. hel hello, ashleigh. nice to see you. good question and one of many questions that continues to hangover this case that may be answered this afternoon. remember, this was an incident that was reported by the young woman to authorities december 7th last year. so, a year later. why has it taken so long? the local authorities in tallahassee began investigating and they say in february of this
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year, the young woman broke off contact with them and said that she did not want to proceed forward with the charges. the attorney that represents winston said, in his mind, that meant the end of the investigation. suddenly that investigation, which up until that point had not been known publicly, was made public in november. once the media got ahold of it and it got out there, the state's prosecutor's office said, that's strange. why didn't we hear about this case? normally we should get that police report. they launched their own investigation and the results are what we're expecting at 2:00 this afternoon. >> stand by if you will, martin. paul, i want to ask you about the handling of this case. the prosecutors didn't get their hands on it for such a long time. investigators doing presumably thorough work, you would hope, in any case. there will be a lot of people out there who will say a big star athlete? sure, why not drag your feet. sure, why not wait until the heisman trophy is announced,
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that kind of thing. is that fair, given when the star power landed in this man's lap and when the crime allegedly happened? is there a timing issue with respect to that? >> well, the crime allegedly happened in december last year, of 2012. he wasn't as big a star as he is now. but he was widely considered one of the top high school football players in america. >> so when i say it's plausible, anybody who feel that is way it's not crazy to think -- >> it's not crazy to think he was given special treem because he was a star. on the other hand, people who say these football players get subject to false claims all the time, professional basketball players, professional football players, they're saying -- >> college lacrosse players. >> college lacrosse players as well. just because a claim is made doesn't mean that somebody's guilty. now, we have to see what went on behind the scenes. what i find to be suspicious and disturbing is that the prosecutor doesn't seem to have been involved in this at an early stage. usually when you have a
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high-profile suspect -- >> they would be in there? >> they bring them in right away. i'm not hearing that. we'll hear it today probably in the press conference, the backstory of the investigation. >> one of the defense in all that criticism is that the accuser in all of this was not on board at the beginning. she turned away from them. i think her camp is refuting that. but that makes a big difference. you cannot go ahead with these kinds of prosecutions unless you have the goods. >> very, very true. she claims that she made a complaint to the police and that the police told her she would be dragged through the mud and she would be destroyed because she was going after a famous football player and she then got cold feet and backed out. >> this is the discrepancy. if the police is saying the accuser backed off, we can't do a case without them telling us what happened and the accuser is saying, what do you mean? i was told back off. you're going to ruin a dream. >> that's the whole can of soup. if they talked her out of
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prosecu prosecuting, that's absolutely wrong. a lot of times what gets back to the prosecutor -- if the prosecutor is in play at the beginning of the case, a prosecutor may say, hey, if you were raped, you're going to testify in front of a grand jury. we're going to go forward with the case. a lot of times they reassure victim to try to go forward with a case that otherwise would be dropped. >> i have to wrap it up. you have to tell victims that, right? you can't just throw them into a lion's den and shock them with now i have to be public in front of the world? you do have to tell them. >> but it's how you tell them. there's nothing wrong with telling them this is going to be a tough road but we'll stick by you if you want to go forward with the charges. that's what the cops should be saying. >> paul callan, thank you. i have other questions for you. and martin savidge, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> watch the announcement 2:00 eastern time right here on cnn. i think there will be a lot of people tuning in to find out exactly what will happen there. if you thought you had privacy, even traveling overseas, think again. a new report indicates that the
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"washington post" is reporting this morning that the nsa is tracking hundreds of millions of cell phones worldwide, and it actually could be yours as well. paper is reporting that the spy agency stores 5 billion records every day. 5 billion, with a b, records, every day on phone users' movements and their contacts. the post cited unnamed u.s. officials and documents leaked by none other than former nsa contractor edward snowden. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins me now. every time i tell a story like this, they're becoming very repetitive, nsa is tracking your every move stories. this is not one of those
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stories, is it? >> reporter: well, they are tracking your moves. >> this is bigger. it's bigger and badder, isn't it? this one looked really ugly. >> yeah. well, look at it it this way. here is my cell phone. here is what it's all about. let's say i'm traveling overseas, on vacation, out of the country on business. i want to call back to the cnn office. i want to call home. the nsa is going to record a record of that call. not record the cell phone is our understanding but those 5 billion phone records a day. here is the problem. nsa is not supposed to collect intelligence on u.s. citizens. when it's collecting that much information overseas, they are, of course, inadvertently, according to them, scooping up data involving u.s. citizens phone calls. it's what you said a minute ago, ashleigh. tracking everything we do. i think that's really what it's essentially coming down to is a public understanding that the nsa is doing this. the real question on cell phones, of course, is why.
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what do they learn from all these records? well, it's our understanding that through their very advanced computer programs essentially very advanced mathematical equation systems, they are able to match up essentially records of phone calls between known intelligence targets or terror suspects and unknowns, people that may be contacting them. then they work their way back and figure where those contacts are coming frchlt one of the big questions, of course, is can they really parse through, sort through this mountainous data that takes them to a terrorist plot? what do they do with the information on u.s. citizens that they're not supposed to collect on? a lot of advocates are looking at this as another invasion of u.s. privacy. >> i think ben franklin said watch it when you're giving up freedoms -- liberties for your
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freedoms. i want to bring in our analysts on this. legal analysts paul callan and danny sevales. collateral surveillance is effectively what the government is saying. we're not targeting the americans here. if they happen to get swept up in the mix, so be it. my question for you, does that protect them from the fourth amendment? you can't do unreasonable search and seizures in this country. >> no, but it does protect them in the sense that you, individually, don't know you're. only congress can protect american citizens from this. this is a staggering amount of information that's being saved. literally, everybody who has a cell phone could theoretically be in the nsa computers. we're storing the information but we're not looking at it.
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if they did look at it, they would not only know who you called but where you made the call from, by tracking cell phone towers. the level of detail is amazing here. >> what's annoying, among other things, is that you can encrypt your e-mail. you can encrypt your physical use of your devices. you can't encrypt where you walk. you can't encrypt where you travel. it just sort of seems unfair that we're fair game, no matter what. is that wrong? >> under the laws of the universe, like you said, you can hide your identity, but you cannot hide your location. that may be the cost of doing business, having a cell phone. that's the way a lot of people view this. we have this technology. it's a tremendous advancement. this is the price of the ticket to the technology. you're emiting a signal that can be tracked. people minimize how much data is important. it's important what you put in a text message and your communications but where you are every minute of the day is
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tremendously important information and you simply cannot hide. you would have to live in a cave, in a loin cloth, to hide from this kind of search. >> the other thing i think you've got to remember -- this looks shocking at first. you know something? surveillance cameras, traffic cameras. >> yes. >> not only cell phone cameras, when you come into new york you go through a toll booth at a bridge. those are being used in divorce actions now. the city of new york is using it to prove you live in new york instead of the suburbs. we're already under surveillance. >> i like the notion that sometimes you've got a known bad guy and it's the unknown bad guys that he or she is in line with that you can ensnare. can anything be free anymore? >> not unless we give up our technology. >> like the president did. he can't carry an iphone for that very reason. appreciate that. millions of internet accounts, i'm very sorry to report, have been hacked. your password could have been
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you never like to hear this. hackers have stolen user names and passwords. forget this. nearly 2 million accounts at facebook. at google, at twitter. popular sites, folks. all of this, according to our report, from that cyber security
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firm trust wave. the bottom line is this, get online and change your passwords quick. lori siegel joins me now. it doesn't matter if you have hot stuff 1226 and you think it's clever, you have to take action? >> absolutely. 2 million accounts affected. they're calling this the pony hack, pony malware. they sent a link. you thought it was something you knew and they installed malware on your computer. they were able to look at your browsing history, get all your passwords and were able to get quite a few. how many passwords were actually stolen. face book 318,000 accounts. g-mail goog sbl youtube, 27,000. yahoo! 60,000 accounts and twitter, 22,000 accounts. ashleigh, this is important. this pony hack was part of a larger organized crime structure. essentially what they did was hacked people, put it on the internet and sold your information. so people could buy your
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passwords. they haven't really caught the person behind this. they just know this was linked to a server in the netherlands. >> it doesn't matter what your password is. if it's stolen, it's stolen. that said it's always fun to put this list up. the top five worst passwords. is it of all time or just 2012? >> 2012. i don't even want to know the 2013. >> first one don't put password in for your password. second, 123456. some of us have done that one before. number three, very similar. four, abc123. five, people going in and putting in the first five -- >> the top row, right? >> essentially the top row. facebook, twitter, you use different passwords. if one of your passwords is compromised they can compromise everything if you have the same password. make sure to do that, too. >> really quickly, isn't it most important to have a different password for your banking,
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period? >> absolutely. >> that can be a takeaway, definitely. >> and don't use password. i have done that. >> not anymore, though. >> heck, no. certainly not in 2012. laurie segall, thank you. a race against time to get dozens of pilot whales back to deeper water. why won't they just go on their own? when they are nudged out, why do they keep coming back? we'll take you there and ask you the expert about this next. [ female announcer ] ladies and gentlemen i'm here to say a few words about the power of baking stuff with nestle toll house morsels. you can heal a broken heart with a bundt cake. make a monday mornin' feel like a friday afternoon with some nestle toll house morsels. let's close our laptops and open our ovens. these things don't bake themselves. we have to bake them for one another. we can bake the world a better place one toll house cookie at a time. nestle. good food, good life.
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welcome back to "legal view." i'm ashleigh banfield. a race to save dozens of pilot whales in everglades national park. the outlook for the others in this pod, as one wildlife official says, it doesn't look
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good, unfortunately. john zarrella has the latest for us. >> reporter: ashleigh, the problem is that there's not much that these rescuers can do to try to save the whales. they get the boats around them out there. we saw this yesterday. they herd the animals, try to push them out to deeper water, keep them from coming back into the shadows. when we left there, they were in deeper water and the hope was that perhaps they would keep swimming out. but the problem was that every time they get them out a little bit, they would turn around and circle back in. of course, these animals are starting to go into distress. they've been in these really shallow waters for more than two days now. they're not feeding, which is a difficulty, obviously. and they're just circling around out there in waters where we really can't support their body weight and everything else out there. so, time is moving on them very quickly. it's really not clear how much longer they'll be able to survive. but as a park official told us yesterday, the longer that this goes on, it is very, very unlikely that they'll be able to
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save all the whales if, any of them. ashleigh? >> john zarrella for us, thank you very much for that. joining us now with his expertise also featured in the movie "blackfish" airing on cnn. explain why any step forward the rescuers make in herding the whales in deeper just met to returning back to the scene where they could die? >> well i think it's important to understand that these are highly bonded. in fact, bonded for life. there's no dispersal from the family. offspring of both genders, male and female, stay with their mothers their entire lives. so it's really one, big extended family or clan of multiple generations, maybe three or four
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generations. no recruitment, no dispersal, they stay together for life. so they're just not likely to abandon any members of their family that are in trouble. >> sadly, i'm reporting this kind of phenomenon a lot. this happened several times in the last few years. why on earth do they go into the shallow waters in the first place? is there something we don't know about their mission? are they trying to end their lives? go i don't know. i'm not in a position to know but i think this calls for some kind of investigation. usually happens when they're panicked, when there is some kind of explosion or it could be sonar, it could be seismic testing, or a natural earthquake undersea that puts off a shockwave that impacts them and runs away from the source of it.
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apparently that's taken them 20 miles over shallow water and right up to the beach and now they can't get back. >> when they are in this predicament, i was so fascinated by the things that you said in "black fish" and the other experts in their family grouping and how they are so distressed when one of their family members is in distress, do they -- are they communicating now? are they making sounds likely now as they are expiring? is there any way to be able to tap into this and learn something about this kind of behavior? >> i hope someone is doing that. i'm sure they are communicating. and it might give us some real insight into what their calls mean. in other words, which are the distress calls, because they're certainly in distress right now. so i hope someone is doing that kind of testing right now. >> and this is sort of a macabre question, but i have been reading that several of the
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whales have -- there's ten whales that have died up until now we're seeing in the situation on our screen and several have been died because they've been euthanized by those in the water trying to rescue them. how do you euthanize a whale like this in a circumstance like this? in that's been the topic of some workshops and there's no real clear answer to that, especially with the much larger whales that sometimes strand. but, yeah, i don't know what are the latest techniques for doing that. it could be just one sharp spike could do it, ta might be the least painful. >> it's very sad to hear that. howard garrett, thank you for joining us. i really appreciate some of your wisdom that you were able to impart on "blackfish" as well. good to meet you and get your information. hope the bet for the pod. it's very sad. thanks, howard. a classic car back in the spotlight. turning some heads.
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his wife was bludgeoned to death in their home in front of th their 3-year-old son and michael
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morton the only suspect in the crime. he was convicted, and sentenced to a life in prison but he did not do it. dna evidence exonerated michael but it took 25 years, and he was in prison the whole time. this incredible story has become a new cnn documentary "unreal dream" tonight 9:00 eastern time. highly recommend you check out that story. checking other stories, the wife of an ohio judge is in jail, accused of trying to poison her husband. reports say carla hague is held on charge of attempted murder. officials say she tried to poison him with antifreeze. he's recovering at home. a mother and her four young kids are lucky to be alive in part because of the quick thinking of an undercover dea agent. he pulled two of the children from the burning pickup, on interstate 40 in tennessee. the mom herself rescued her 3-year-old twins, and
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fortunately no one was injured. surveillance video from a kmart in st. louis shows security trying to stop a mom accused of shoplifting. she starts to struggle and her male friend gets involved, too. police say she sprayed mace at an officer. when she and the man ran out of the store, the worst part, perhaps, of the whole incident. she left her 4-year-old boy sitting in the shopping cart, see in the foreground? that's her child, left in the shopping cart. a wild chase in kansas city, missouri between police and a guy in a stolen fedex truck. the original driver left the keys in the ignition. a family member suspected in this told an affiliate he got in a fight with his girlfriend and needed a ride. police spotted the stolen truck and they gave him a ride. unfortunately, it was to jail. ford motor company is revealing the newest model of an american classic.
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